ADVERTISEMENTS.
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RITISN
COLLEGE
B
Fore~gn General Agents for
Adelaide (S. A.)
. .
Amsterdam
.
.
Angostura
.
.
Aruba, ~esi~ndies
.
Baltimore (U. S.)
.
Barbadoes
.
.
Barcelona, Spain
.
Basle (Switzerland)
.
Bathurst (Gambia).
Bologna, Italy
.
.
Brody (Germany)
.
Cadiz
.
.
Calcutta
.
.
Cape Breton
.
Carthagena
.
.
Constantinople
Copenhagen
.
Cortu
...
OF'
HEALTH,
NEW
ROAD,
LONDON.
the Sale of MORISON'S PILLS,-the Vegetable Universal Medicine.
.
Mr.
J.
Stephens.
..
Mr. Jacob Meihnizen.
.
M. Rouquette.
...
M. D. Capriles, Jun.
.
J.
C.
French and Son.
.
.
J.
Montefiore and Co.
.
Mr. Charles Sola.
. .
Mr. Roderick Scholp.
. Mr.
Daniel Slight.
.
Mr.
V.
A. Guarmani.
.
N. Kornfield, Esq.
.
.
Mr.
J.
Bensnsan.
.
T.
Gardner, Esq.
.
.
Lieut.
J.
M'Kinnon.
.
Sir Rafael Cauto. Muralla do1 Mar.
.
Mr. A. Stampa.
.
Mr. C.
S.
Holm.
.
.
Mr.
J.
W. Tavlor.
Cracow
. .
Curaqoa
(W.
I.)
. .
Douglas (Isle of Man)
.
Elsinore
...
Frankfort
...
George Town City (Demerara)
...
Gibraltar
Guernsey
...
Habana
.
-
Halifax (N.
i)
.
Jagelnica
.
.
Kempton (Bavaria)
.
.
Ditto ditto
.
.
Kingston (Jamaica)
. .
London
(U.
Canada)
.
Louisville, Kentucky (U. S.)
.
Macou (Bibb County, Georgia,
Madras
....
Malta
...
(U.
S.)
.
Madrld
.....
....
Matanzas (Cuba)
Mexico
.
.
M~lan
.
Montreal
New York
(U.
i.)
.
Odessa
...
Passau
....
Pernambuco (Brazils)
.
Russia (Interior)
...
Nelson-
acklinla
street.
.
D.
Jose Simon.
.
Dr. Ambrosia C. Sauto, Callo del Media, NO.
13.
.
Mr. JeanTogno.
.
Mr. J. E. Rivolta.
.
Mr.
R.
Trudean.
.
Messrs. Firth, Pond, and Co.
.
Messrs. Stiffel and Co.
.
Wm.
Waener.
.
Carl ~e&an.
.
A. S. Corbett, Esq.
. .
W.
Wagner, Odessa.
Vienna
...
Mr. Matthew Burger.
Valencia
......
Mr. Antonio Andreu.
Bishop's Auckland (New
Zealand)
.
.
Mr. R. Parris.
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PARASOLS.
W.
&
J.
SANGSTER
BEG
to
submit to the Nobility and Gentry an entirely new PARASOL for this season, called the PATENT
SWISS PARASOL,
of
which the style and make is particularly new and elegant.
It will be sold retail, lined
and fringed, at
10s.
6d.
each, or unlined at
6s.
6d.
each.
W. and
J.
Sangster also respectfully solicit an inspec-
tion of
then extensive stock of FANCY SILK PARASOLS, suitable tor the carriage, promenade, garden, or
sea side.
140,
Regentstreet;
94,
Fleet.street;
10,
Royal Exchange;
40,
Cornhill.
30
ADVERTISEMENTS.
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--
Perfect
freedom
from
Coughs
in
ten
minutes,
AND INSTANT RELIEF
AND
A RAPID CURE
OF
ASTHMA
AND
CONSUMPTION, COUGHS, COLDS,
AND
ALL DISORDERS
OF
THE
BREATH
AND
LUNGS,
ARE
INSURED
BY
DR.
LOCOCK'S
PULMONIC
WAFERS.
',,"
Small l~ooks, containing many hwzdreds of p?.opevZy authenticated (restimonials, may be
had from every Agent.
Cure of
29
years' ~sthmatic cough,
From
J.
D. Marshall, M.D., Lecturer to the Royal Insti.
tution,
Belfast, and Chemist
in
Ireland to her Majesty
Middleton, near Manchester.
1
O,IPC,,_
Sir,-I am now
44
years of age, and I have been
afflicted with an asthwdtic cough since
I
was a boy of
fifteen years of age. during that time
I
have resorted to
every means in my
iower to remove
it,
but in vain, until
last Sunday, when
I
sent for a small box of Dr. Locock's
Wafers.
I
have taken two boxes since, and from the
effects
they have had upon me
I
feel
no
douht of a speedy
recovery.
G.
STRINGER.
Witness,
M.
LYNCH,
Chemist, Market-street.
--
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-
-
-
..
.
8,
High-street, Belfast, Sept. 2lst,
1847.
Gentlemen,-I have the gratification of stating that
from all
I have been enabled to observe of Dr. Locock's
Pulmonic Wafers, they have been of eminent service in
the alleviation
of
severe asthmatic coughs, pains in the
chest,
&c.
I have no doubt that when they hecomemore generally
known in the north of Ireland, they will be as highly
esteemed as they are in other parts of the kingdom.
J.
D. MARSHALL, M.D.
DR.
LOCOCK'S WAFERS
give instant relief, and
a
rapid cure of asthma, coilsuinptioll,
coughs,
colds, and all disorders of the breath and lungs.
TO SINGERS
AND
PUBLIC SPEAKERS
they are invaluable, as in a few hours
they remove all hoarseness, and wonderfully increase the power and flexibility of the voice.
They have a pleasant taste.
Price 1s. lpd., 2s. Sd., and 11s. per box.
AGENTS
:
DA
SILVA
&
CO.,
1, Bride-lane, Fleet-street, London.
Sold by
all Medicine Vendors.
PRICE,
Is.
lBd.,
2s.
gd., and
11s.
per box.
The
only
Medicine recommended to be
taken by Females
!
BFWAEE OF IMITATIONS
l
unprincipled
Persons Counterfeit this medi-
cine in the form of
PILLS,
&c. Purchasers
must therefore observe that none are Gen-
uine but "WAFERS
"
and that the words
I'
DR.
LOCOC$IS
WAFERS71
are in the Stamp outside each Box.
O~sERvE.-There
a& various Counterfeit Medicbes,
having words on
the
Stamp so
NEARLY
RESEMBLING
THESE,
as
to mislead
the
unwary. Purchasers
must
therefore st~ictly observe the above Caution.
Prepared only
by
the Proprietor's Agents,
DA
SILVA
&
CO.,
1,
Bride Lane, Fleet St, London.
Sold by all
MedicineVendors.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
3
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EAGLANDS newly invented INVISIBLE SPINE
SUPPORTERS will be
follnd well deserving the atten-
tion of the Medical Profession, and of persons suffering
under Spinal deformity and its consequences. As any
attempt at a description
must
needs fall
short of
giving
a correct idea of the plan itself,
,Mr. EAGLAND solici!s
an inspection. They are beautlfully simple and eml-
nently successful, quite imperceptible, and conceal the
deformity from the keenest observer.
Mr. E. has the
pleasure to add, that he
is
empowered
to
refer to ladies
of the highest respectability as to the remedial effects
produced by their use.
12,
COVENTRY STREET, HAYMARKET,
LONDON.
*,*
Hours Eleven till Six.
-
CHILDREN'S
FROCKS.
COATS,
AND
P
EAGLANDS newly invented INVISIBLE SPINE
SUPPORTERS will be
follnd well deserving the atten-
tion of the Medical Profession, and of persons suffering
under Spinal deformity and its consequences. As any
attempt at a description
must
needs fall
short of
giving
a correct idea of the plan itself,
,Mr. EAGLAND solici!s
an inspection. They are beautlfully simple and eml-
nently successful, quite imperceptible, and conceal the
deformity from the keenest observer.
Mr. E. has the
pleasure to add, that he
is
empowered
to
refer to ladies
of the highest respectability as to the remedial effects
produced by their use.
In all the New Materials and prevailing
Styles,
a
large portion of which areexpressly adapted for School
Wear, at SHEARMAN'S,
5,
FINSBURY PAVEMENT.
LONDON (between the Bank and Finsbury
Square).
SEVERAL HUNDREDS constantly on view from
the useful dress at
Is.
Ild., 2s. 6d., 3s. 6d
.
mddium,
6s.
6d.,
7s.
6d.,
10s.
Bd., 12s. 6d.;
handso&
158.
6d.,
18s.
6d., 21s.
6d.,
up to the richest goods mide in Silk
Velvets, Three, Four, and Five Guineas.
HOLLAND DRESSES
of all kinds. Pinafores,
10bd.
;
Frocks,
IS.
6d., Is. 9d.;
ditto, long sleeves,
2s.
gd.,
3s.
6d.;
Blouses,
3s. Ed.,
4s.
6d.,
5s.
6d.
MANTLES, PALETOTS, CLOAKS, JACKETS, and
SPENCERS, in great
variety, adapted for allages, two
years
and upwards.
INFANTS' CLOAKS, HOODS, HATS, and BONNETS, LONG
and SHORT ROBES, French Cambric Caps, Day and Night Gowns,
Robe Blankets, and Squares, Lawn and Cambric Night Caps, Open
and Round Shirts, Trimmed Nursery Baskets, and Bassinets, with
a
general Stock of BABY LINEN, together with every article usually
required
for
a YOUNG FAMILY: thus obviating the trouble and
inconvenience (so long complained of)
in
going to various shops when
JUVENILE CLOTHING is required.
*,*
An Illustrated Pamphlet, affording additional information, sent
free on the receipt of a paid Letter.
DOUDNEYS
Watettprclclfer$,
EaBtt $l%atiers',
anD
GEaiIors'
TO
QUEEN
VICTORIA,
QUEEN
ADELAIDE,
H.R.H. Prince Albert, H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent,
KING LOUIS PHILIPPE,
And the ROYAL FAMILIES of ENGLAND and FRANCE,
The
DOUDNEYS
motto is
"none but Good Articles can be cheap,"
and with this ever in view they have, by increasing efforts, established a
Ready Money
business of great extent
among the strong
holds of)the
old fashioned usurious Credit System.
As to the character and recom-
mendatory
influence of the approbation which has been bestowed upon their endeavours; let their
3?i&
IIoyal
Appointments,
and their
Patronage Book
filled wlth the
Royal, Illustrious,
and
Noble
names
of their customers, testify.
The New Patterns
for
Spring
and
Summer wear
are now ready for
inspection at the
Old Prices
so famous in seasons pat, viz. :-Summer Waistcoats 7s. each, or
3
for 20s.-
Summer Trousers 10s. 6d. per pair: or
3
for 30s.-Summer Coats, the beautiful light material 10s. 66.-21s. and 30s.
The Queens Victoria and Adelaide,
and the Royal and Noble Duchesses
of Kent and Cambridge. Sutherland and Buccleuch, constantly wear Doudney's elegant
Registered Cloak
ina
variety of Waterproof,
~uaterials for Winter Wraps and the Promenade.--LL Every Lady should see these graceful)~ar-
ments."
(Tide
Morning
Post,
September
26th.)
They surpass all others for School Cloaks for the sons and daughters.
For Gentlemen.-The Roval Redstered Cloak.
as made for
H.IS.IL.
ImRISCE
.LLREI(T,
the
~obiilt~,
tlie
~rn;~,
and
Savy,
atld
all
\\:lie
sru~:y
romf<,r*i,
cjupled witli a trulvGentlemanly exterior. Tliese cloaks
are
pr~~riuunced
by
those wlio understnnJ tllc Iiiatter,
'6
The
~ro*b nrrlsihl& Garlucnt
ever
iutr.odnced,"
dt prices to suit nil custonlcrs irom the Supcrh down to tlle
useful Guinea Cloak.
The New Patent Belt
for Riding or general exercise, the only really effectual
protection against rupture; the support commencing at the bottom
edge
of the belt, and producing an uniform upward
pressure. They may be enlarged or tightened to the extent
of six inches at pleasure, and never produce indigestlon
either in Ladies or Gentlemen. They are attached to Drawers with excellent effect.
The most eminent of the Faculty
are recommending these in preference to
all others.
LIVERIES.
Three Guineas the Plain Suit of Best Quality.
Ready
Money
be8
it
!I!
and
a
very extensive practice among families of first distinction insures satisfactory results.
Habit Makers by Special Appointment to Queen Victoria and
the Ladies of the Court. A Superfine Cloth Habit for
4
Guineas,
Waterproof Irish Poplin.
The
DOUDNEYS
are the sole manufac-
turers of this beautiful article to HER MAJESTY AND THE PRINCE
CONSORT.
Gentlemen's Coats, Ladies
Cloaks, and lengths for Dresses can be obtained only at their Establishment.
Country Gentlemen
wishing to be Respectably Dressed at
low
Prices should
send for a Book of detail, self-measurement and all the System of business, or if
3
or
4
Gentlemen unite, a Traveller
will wait upon them.
17,
OLD
BOND
ST.,
25,
BURLINGTON
ARCADE
49.
LOMBARD
~~~l%i~-~stablished
1784.
PERSONAL HISTORY
AND
EXPERIENCE
OF
DAVID
COPPERFIELD
THE
YOUNGER.
CHAPTER
I.
I
AM
BORN.
WHETHER
I
shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether
that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
To begin my life with the beginning of my life,
I
record that
I
was born
(as
I
have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at
night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and
I
began
to cry, simultaneously.
In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by
the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken
a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of
our becoming personally acquainted, first, that
I
was destined to be
unlucky in life; and secondly, that
I
was privileged to see ghosts and
spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all
unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a
Friday night.
I
need say nothing here, on the first head, because nothing can show
better than my history whether that prediction was verified or falsified
by the result. On the second branch of the question,
I
will only
remark, that unless
I
ran through that part of my inheritance while
I
was still a baby,
I
have not come into it yet. But
I
do not at
all
complain of having been kept out of this property; and if anybody
else should be in the present enjoyment of it, he is heartily welcome to
keep it.
I
was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers,
at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were
short of money about that time, or were short of faith and preferred
cork-jackets,
I
don't know; all
I
know is, that there was but one
solitary bidding, and that was from an attorney connected with the
bill-
broking
business, who offered two pounds in cash, and the balance in
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sherry, but declined to be guaranteed from drowning on any higher bargain.
Consequently the advertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss-for as to
sherry, my poor dear mother's own sherry was in the market then-and
ten years afterwards the caul was put up in a raffle down in our
part of the country, to fifty members at half-a-crown a head, the winner
to spend five shillings.
I
was present myself, and
I
remember to
have felt quite uncomfortable
and confused, at a part of myself being
disposed of in that way. The caul was won,
I
recollect, by an old lady
with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly, produced from it the stipulated
five shillings, dl in halfpence, and twopence halfpenny short-as it took
an immense time and a great waste of arithmetic, to endeavour without
any effect to prove to her. It is a fact which will be long remembered
as remarkable down there, that she
was never drowned, but died tri-
umphantly in bed, at ninety-two.
I
have understood that
it
was,
to the last, her proudest boast, that she never had been on the
water in
her
lifc, except upon a bridge; and that over her tea (to which she was
extremely partial) she, to the last, expressed her indignation at the
impiety of mariners and others, who had the presumption to go
"meandering" about the world.
It
was in vain to represent to her
that
some conveniences, tea perhaps included, resulted from this ob-
jectionable practice. She always returned, with greater emphasis and
with an instinctive knowledge of the strength of her objection, "Let us
have no meandering."
Not to meander, myself, at present,
I
will go back to my birth.
I
was born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk, or "thereby," as they say in
Scotland.
I
was a postlumous child. My father's eyes had closed upon
the light of this world six months, when mine opened on it.
There is
something strange to me, even now, in the reflection that he never
saw
me
;
and something stranger yet in the shadowy remembrance that
I
have
of my first childish associations with his white grave-stone in the church-
yard, and of the indefinable compassion
I
used to feel for it lying out done
there in the dark night, when our little parlor was warm and bright with
fie and candle, and the doors of our house were-almost cruelly, it seemed
to me sometimes-bolted and locked against it.
An aunt of my father's, and consequently a great-aunt of mine, of
whom
I
shall have more to relate by and by, was the principal magnate
of our family. Miss Trotwood, or Miss Betsey, as my poor mother always
called her, when she sufficiently overcame her dread of this formidable
personage to mention her at all (which was seldom), had been married
to a husband younger than herself, who was very handsome, except in the
sense of the homely adage, "handsome is, that handsome doesH-for he
was strongly suspected of having beaten Miss Betsey, and even of having
once, on a disputed question of supplies, made some hasty but determined
arrangements to throw her out of a two pair of stairs' window. These
evidences of an incompatibility of temper induced Miss Betsey to pay
him off, and effect
a
separation by mutual consent. He went to India
with his capital, and there, according to a wild legend in our family, he
was once seen riding on an
elephant, in company with a Baboon; but
I
think it must have been
a
Baboo-or a Begum. Any how, from India
OP
DAVID
COPPERFIELD.
u
tidings of his death reached home, within ten years.
How they
affected
my aunt, nobody knew; for immediately upon the separation, she took
her maiden name again, bought a cottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a
long way off, established herself there as a single woman with one servant,
and was understood to live secluded, ever afterwards, in an inflexible
retirement.
My father had once been a favorite of hers,
I
believe; but she was
mortally affronted by his marriage, on the ground that my mother was
"
a wax doll." She had never seen my mother, but she knew her to be
not yet twenty.
My father and Miss Betsey never met again. He was
double my mother's age when he married, and of but a delicate constitu-
tion. He died a year afterwards, and, as
I
have said, six months before
I
came into the world.
This was the state of matters, on the afternoon of, what
I
may be
excused for calling, that eventful and important Friday.
I
can make no
claim therefore to have known, at that time, how matters stood
;
or to have
any remembrance, founded on the evidence of my own senses, of what
follows.
My
mother was sitting by the fire, but poorly in health, and very low
in spirits, looking at it through her tears, and desponding heavily about
herself and the fatherless little stranger, who was already welcomed by some
grosses of prophetic pins, in a drawer up-stairs, to a world not at all excited
on the subject of his arrival; my mother,
I
say, was sitting by the fire,
that bright, windy March afternoon, very timid and sad, and very doubtful
of ever coming alive out of the trial that was before her, when, lifting her
eyes as she dried them, to the window opposite, she saw
a
strange lady
coming up the garden.
My mother had a sure foreboding at the second glance, that
it
was Miss
Betsey.
The setting sun was glowing on the strange lady, over the
garden-fence, and she came walking up to the door with a fell rigidity
of figure and composure of countenance that could have belonged to
nobody else.
When she reached the house, she gave another proof of her identity.
My father had often hinted that she seldom conducted herself like any
ordinary Christian; and now, instead of ringing the bell, she came and
looked in at that identical window, pressing the end of her nose against
the glass to that extent, that my poor dear mother used to say
it
became
perfectly flat and white in a moment.
She gave my mother such a turn, that
I
have always been convinced
I
am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been-born on a Friday.
My mother had left her chair
in
her agitation, and gone behind it in
the corner. Miss Betsey, looking round the room, slowly and enquiringly,
began on the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen's Head in
a Dutch clock, until they reached my mother. Then she made a frown
and a gesture to my mother, like one who was accustomed to be obeyed,
to come and open the door.
My mother went.
"
Mrs. David Copperfield,
I
think,"
said Miss Betsey
;
the emphasis
referring, perhaps, to my mother's mourning weeds, and her condition.
"
Yes," said my mother, faintly.
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"
Miss Trotwood," said the visitor.
"You have heard of her,
I
dare
say
?"
My mother answered she had had that pleasure. And she had a dis-
agreeable consciousness of not appearing to imply that it had been
an
overpowering pleasure.
"
Now you see her," said Miss Betsey.
My mother bent her head, and
begged her to walk in.
They went into the parlor my mother had come from, the fire in the
best room on the other side of the passage not being lighted-not having
been lighted, indeed, since my father's funeral
;
and when they were both
seated, and Miss Betsey said nothing, my mother, after vainly trying to
restrain herself, began to cry.
"
Oh tut, tut, tut
!"
said Miss Betsey, in
a
hurry.
"
Don't do that!
Come, come
!"
My mother couldn't help it notwithstanding, so she cried until she had
had her cry out.
"
Take off your cap, child," said Miss Betsey,
"
and let me see you."
My mother was too much afraid of her to refuse compliance with this
odd request, if she had any disposition to do so. Therefore she did as
she was told, and did it with such nervous hands that her hair (which was
luxuriant and beautiful) fell all about her face.
"
Why, bless my heart
!
"
exclaimed Miss Betsey.
"
You are a very
Baby
!"
My mother was, no doubt, unusually youthful in appearance even
for her years; she hung her head, as if it were her fault, poor thing,
and said, sobbing, that indeed she was afraid she was but a childish
widow, and would be but a childish mother if she lived.
In a short
pause which ensued, she had a fancy that she felt Miss Betsey touch her
hair, and that with no ungentle hand; but, looking at her, in her timid
hope, she found that lady sitting with the skirt of her dress tucked up,
her
hands folded on one knee, and her feet upon the fender, frowning at
-
the fire.
<'
In the name of Heaven," said Miss Betsey, suddenly,
"
why Rookery
?
"
"DO you mean the house, ma'am?
"
asked my mother.
"Why Rookery
?
"
said Miss Betsey.
"
Cookery would have been
more to the purpose, if you had had any practical ideas of Life, either of
y
OU."
<<The name was Mr. Copperfield's choice," returned my mother.
"When he bought the house, he liked to think that there were rooks
about it."
The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall
old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor
Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one
another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds
of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about,
as
if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind,
some weather-beaten ragged old rooksy-nests, burdening their higher
branches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea.
"Where are the birds?
"
asked Miss Betsey.